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Herve, thanks for the quick reply, I guess I'll go for El Capitan then! And thanks for the tip on the wireless! Any other tips? Are people able to get HDMI out and DisplayPort working? My wife asked why I'd do this, and I said because I can, (and upgrading from XP to Win7 or 10 - would be almost as much of a pain with hunting down drivers). I'll try to take good notes and post for the E6500.

Hey Guys newb here, I have an old Latitude e6500 that I was thinking turning into a Hackintosh could be a fun rainy Memorial Day experience, but I have some questions if anyone can offer some advice. I'm hoping to use this at work when I'm in meetings to Remote Desktop into my windows desktop. So I'd prefer it to be pretty stable. If it works maybe I'll use it for some photo editing in Photoshop/Lightroom. I have a 500gb Crucial SSD I'm planning on putting in the box to start with a speedy fresh drive. I've seen some mention of El Capitan running slow on this hardware. They'd reverted back to Lion which ran smoother. What version of OS X do you recommend? Most of the guides I've seen are for Lion or Yosemite. Should I just follow one of those with a different OS? Is A24 a good bios to start with or upgrade to A26 that I've seen in some peoples signatures? I used to tinker with MythTV DVR's and put Linux and an IR Remote receiver on an old XBox for the frontend. So I have some experience in the area, just not with OS X. Any other threads I should you have found helpful for setting this up? A few of the hreads I found so far: https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/1100-dell-e64006500-research-thread/ Yosemite Guide: https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/6740-yosemity-e6400-1st-page-edited/&do=findComment&comment=40050 El Capitan USB fix - https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/8385-e6500-el-capitan-usb-still-not-working/?hl=e6500 This seems very old: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/134430-install-dell-latitude-e6400-e6500/ e6500 Bios: A24 Display: 1920x1200 - Nvidia Quadro NVS 160M Processor: T9400 @ 2.53 Memory: 4GB (will increase to 8gb if its stable) HD: 500gb SSD Network: Dell Wireless 1397 & Intel 82567 gigabit DVD+RW Bluetooth Display Port & HDMI